Cleaning my helmet :-0

[Vesuvius 996]

OK.

I have inherited a very nice crash helmet. It's an Arai, but I don't knwo who has worn it before me.

So I'd like to clean the foamy inside of it.

How might I do this, oh knowledgeable ones?

[outlaw biker]

Try helmet cleaner. Available in all good motorcycle accessory shops and horsey tack shops.

[Vesuvius 996]

outlaw biker said:

Try helmet cleaner. Available in all good motorcycle accessory shops and horsey tack shops.

IS that like a wind-up for clueless newbies?


"Hello, I'd like some helmet cleaner."

"*snigger*"

[anonymous-user]

Vesuvius 996 said:

outlaw biker said:

Try helmet cleaner. Available in all good motorcycle accessory shops and horsey tack shops.

IS that like a wind-up for clueless newbies?


"Hello, I'd like some helmet cleaner."

"*snigger*"

He's messing you around, it's really called Bellend Wax.

[Pasco]

I bet he fetched it out of a skip Bloody Pikeys

[RemaL]

if its more than 5 years old bin it. or if you want to keeep it don't use it. shelf life is 5 years max if used on a bike. tracking day in a car then probably no probs

[outlaw biker]

Vesuvius 996 said:

outlaw biker said:

Try helmet cleaner. Available in all good motorcycle accessory shops and horsey tack shops.

IS that like a wind-up for clueless newbies?


"Hello, I'd like some helmet cleaner."

"*snigger*"

No not at all. Have a scan through a Ride, Bike, Horse & Hound, or get yourself down to Hein Gerrich (however you spell that?)

[outlaw biker]

RemaL said:

if its more than 5 years old bin it. or if you want to keeep it don't use it. shelf life is 5 years max if used on a bike. tracking day in a car then probably no probs

Yeah, you REALLY should not EVER buy a second hand helmet of any description. Unless you don't value your head.

Edited by outlaw biker on Friday 29th August 20:02

[Vesuvius 996]

Oh GOD.

Ever wish you'd just gone to the shop an asked.....

[mvagustaobsessed]

Would recommend Febreeze...works better than most helmet "sanitizers" and you dont need to remove the lining!

Bad effort having a second hand helmet though...never going to protect you like a new one would.

[R5GTTgaz]

I'd want to wear a helmet too if I had to drive a sub 10k purple tiptronic 996.



Look on the Arai site for a 5* dealer, they will be able to give your helmet a proper service.

[anonymous-user]

Vesuvius 996 said:

Oh GOD.

Ever wish you'd just gone to the shop an asked.....

What was the question again?

Are we not being helpful?

[eccles]

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...

[Vesuvius 996]

RemaL said:

if its more than 5 years old bin it. or if you want to keeep it don't use it. shelf life is 5 years max if used on a bike. tracking day in a car then probably no probs

It's OK. Someone tried to rob the pub down the road wearing it.

Pub owner asked me if I wanted it. It's got some blood on it, put it that way..... I don't think the robbers came off very well thus why the police aren't involved. The East End element dealt with it.

I am off to the 'Ring next weekend and will just use it as a bit of extra noggin protection (going in an AMG 63 Merc so I expect that the worst it will have to withstand is smacking against a window if me or my mate bin it......)

It's a very expensive one - bad night for the robbers ha ha ha!! Unlucky!!!

Edited by Vesuvius 996 on Friday 29th August 20:08

[RemaL]

Vesuvius 996 said:

RemaL said:

if its more than 5 years old bin it. or if you want to keeep it don't use it. shelf life is 5 years max if used on a bike. tracking day in a car then probably no probs

It's OK. Someone tried to rob the pub down the road wearing it.

Pub owner asked me if I wanted it. It's got some blood on it, put it that way..... I don't think the robbers came off very well.

I am off to the 'Ring next weekend and will just use it as a bit of extra noggin protection (going in an AMG Merc so I expect that the worst it will have toi withstand is smacking against a window if me or my mate bin it.)

Edited by Vesuvius 996 on Friday 29th August 20:05

as I said your ok if in a car. I use my old AGV for track days in the kit car.

I have no roof or windscreen so just fecked if I rolled the thing with or without a lid

Edited by RemaL on Friday 29th August 20:09

[lost in espace]

Are you sure it didn't come from one of the ram raiders who croaked driving an MX-5 at Apex corner?

[outlaw biker]

Vesuvius 996 said:

RemaL said:

if its more than 5 years old bin it. or if you want to keeep it don't use it. shelf life is 5 years max if used on a bike. tracking day in a car then probably no probs

It's OK. Someone tried to rob the pub down the road wearing it.

Pub owner asked me if I wanted it. It's got some blood on it, put it that way..... I don't think the robbers came off very well thus why the police aren't involved. The East End element dealt with it.

I am off to the 'Ring next weekend and will just use it as a bit of extra noggin protection (going in an AMG 63 Merc so I expect that the worst it will have to withstand is smacking against a window if me or my mate bin it......)

It's a very expensive one - bad night for the robbers ha ha ha!! Unlucky!!!

Edited by Vesuvius 996 on Friday 29th August 20:08

Arai are usually fibreglass which has a 7yr life span. Plastic, 'carbon composite' etc have a round 5. Keep it out of sunlight.

Edited by outlaw biker on Friday 29th August 20:13

[Shaolin]

You're taking your new helmet to the ring

[Chilli]

TBH mate, I'd bin it. You can't see if it's damaged inside...could smash into a million pieces with the smallest of impacts.

[Vesuvius 996]

Chilli said:

TBH mate, I'd bin it. You can't see if it's damaged inside...could smash into a million pieces with the smallest of impacts.

Surely for £0 it's better than nothing. I wont' be using it on a bike, only in an AMG Merc.... To be honest I'd have not bothered weraing one unless I'd had the gift!